Russland Container

Not only through a currently contested pipeline, but also across centuries of exchange and repulsion, Russia and Germany have been—as distant as they are connected. Today’s political climate feels tense; the signs point toward conflict and polarization.

In this situation, Alexander Kluge devotes an entire new major volume exclusively to Russia. In a decidedly poetic manner—without the authoritarian will to synthesize—he approaches the immeasurable terrain of the largest country on Earth and the multitude of its souls. His concern is with the “unsubjugated” material, the kind that “leaves the reader and the materials themselves free to breathe.”